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Tennis

A Cultural History

Heiner Gillmeister (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

632 Seiten

2017 | 2nd Revised edition
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78179-521-7 (ISBN)

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This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed and bestselling comprehensive history of tennis which was the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. Supported by a startling wealth of linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global evolution of tennis from its origins in 12th century France where it emerged as a more peaceful variety of ribald football played in monasteries. By the 16th century, it had become the favourite pastime of the European aristocracy and had, in the wake of the Spanish conquistadors, even reached the Americas. The prestige of the game also led to its popularity among Renaissance poets and playwrights. After a gradual decline in the 18th and 19th centuries the medieval game revived in the 1870s in the form of lawn tennis. The new game dispensed with the expensive walled courts, discarded the complicated rules of the old game and was played in a natural setting. From England with its famous Wimbledon tournament it spread to the European continent and to the United States where the Davis Cup was born.Gillmeister debunks several firmly established myths about the history of the game and rare colour photographs and medieval and renaissance drawings generously adorn the text.
A delight for the sports fan and the scholar alike, Tennis is the authoritative text on the sport.

Heiner Gillmeister is a retired Chaucerian and linguistics scholar at the University of Bonn and is a world authority on the history of ball games. He taught sports history at the German Sports University, Cologne, and his theory that Association Football has its roots in Renaissance Italy and that golf and even cricket originated on the European continent created an international stir. He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Oxford English Dictionary and to leading German newspapers such as Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

From the Preface to the First EditionPreface to the Second Edition1.The Origins of Tennis: The Monks' Racket2.The Tennis Games of the Middle Ages3.The Language of Tennis4.Tennis in Renaissance Literature5.Tennis in the German Ballhouse6.Lawn Tennis: The Sturdy Bastard 7.Lawn Tennis in America8.Continental Colonies: Lawn Tennis in France9.Lawn Tennis under the Kaiser

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	16 page colour plate section and 158 black and white figures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Tennis
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78179-521-5 / 1781795215
ISBN-13	978-1-78179-521-7 / 9781781795217
Zustand	Neuware